of greentown



E; BALL.

Plow.

No. 8,819. v Pa tented Mar. 23, is:

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

E. BALL, OF GREENTOWN, OHIO, ASSIGNOR TO I. N. MOABEE.

PLOW.

Specification of Letters Patent No. 8,819, dated March 23, 1852.

T 0 all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, E. BALL, of Greentown, in the county of Stark andState of Ohio, have invented certain new and useful Improvements inPlows, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description,reference being had to the accompanying drawing, which forms part ofthis specification, and in which Figure 1 represents a view inperspective of my improved plow, Fig. 2 is a vertical longitudinalsection of the same and Fig. 3 is a plan of a fragment of the beam andstandard reversed.

In my improved plow the beam is connected with the acting members of theplow by an adjustable standard and bolt, by means of which the beam canbe raised or lowered and its inclination in either a vertical orhorizontal direction can be varied to suit the difierent cases which mayoccur in practice.

In the accompanying drawing the acting members of the plow, that is tosay those by which the slice of earth is severed andturned over, andwhich consists mainly of the colter A, the share B, the mold board C,and the landside D, are firmly secured to each other so that they canall be moved simultaneously without affecting their relative positions.These acting members are connected with the beam E by means of astandard F and a bolt G.

The standard consists of two parts, the head and the body. The former ofthese is a Hate plate a which is fitted to the under side of the beamand is perforated at its front extremity to admit the bolt Gr. It is'also slotted at its hinder extremity to admit another bolt 0. The slotextends crosswise with the head and is curved to permit the beam E to beturned sidewise on the front bolt G as a center. The body of thestandard consists of a flat plate 6 which depends from the under side ofthe head a and is perforated at its lower extremity with a. series ofholes 6. This lower extremity is passed through an aperture formed inthe upper portion of the land side casting and bears against the innerface thereof, as shown at Fig. 2. It is secured to this casting by abolt 2' which is passed through one of the holes 6 and through a slot inthe casting, as shown by the dotted lines. The aperture through whichthe standard is passed and the slot in the land side casting are of suchshape as will permit the standard to be inland side. It is passed upwardthrough the front bolt hole in the head of the standard F and throughthe beam E. It is also fitted with two nuts, the one f above and theother 9 below the beam, by means of which it can be secured to the beamin any desired posi tion.

The handles H H, by means of which the plow is directed, are attacheddirectly to the plow castings so that they have no connection with thebeam.

The plow thus constructed can be readily adjusted to the different caseswhich occur in practice. If for example the vertical inclination of thebeam to the shoe of the plow, v

beam to be turned on the front bolt G as a center, after which the nut.is retightened, and if the vertical distance of the beam from top of thelandside is to be varied the nuts f g of the front bolt are to beslackened and I the standard bolt 2' is withdrawn from that hole in thestandard in which it is inserted. The beam can then be raised or loweredas required and can be made fast in its new position by reinserting thestandard bolt through a new bolt hole and tightening the nuts f, g, ofthe front bolt.

What I claim as my invention and desire to secure by Letters Patent isConnecting the beam to the plow-irons by means of a pivot and staybolt Gand adjustable standard F the whole being constructed and arranged asdescribed so that the front end of the beam can be set toward eitherside, or either extremity raised or lowered without changing the heightof the other, or both extremities raised simultane- Witnesses:

I. H. Wrsn, D. H. HARMON.

